there is more then I thought to be thankful for.
Pedro’s corner…
That just tickles in comparison to Pedro’s lame insults. Call me shallow. But it seems to fit nicely with how much “the adversary” Pedro plays.
The Story of the Fur Lined Cream Pitcher.
I had two sets of grandparents that I got to grow up with. That is really lucky. A Granma and Grampa and a Nana and a Gamp. I visited my Nana and Gamp any time I was going to get another sibling. By the time my youngest sister was born my Nana was teaching me honeymoon bridge to pass the time. We had a trophy, an imaginary fur lined cream pitcher. When she let me win, she’d say that I had won the fur lined cream pitcher and when she won, she claimed the prize with glee.
Some time back there, later, while still a kid, I bought a cream pitcher and some fake fur material at a craft market, glued the fur to the inside and gave it to my Nana for Christmas. Seems as if, for as long as I can remember, she displayed it proudly like it was some creative wonder.
It sits on a shelf today in our home, where it has a different sort of worth/value?
Creative writing thread. It has been a while since I’ve told a story.
My Mom was a story teller…that would be a different story, her mom Nana and dad Gamp were great story tellers. They are now, the stories.
Or I could tell you the story, nay… it is a grand tale, of The Smoothest Stone. But that will take some time…
It’s slow to develop and the plot has a rocky start.
Not sure if the topic deserves it’s own thread.
Russia, The USSR Didn’t that stand for the United Soviet Socialist Republic?
And China, The People’s Republic of China.
“And to the Republic for which it Stands…”
This shit must be designed to muddy waters.
And sometimes you just gotta put the product back on the self and chalk up the 20% restocking fee as a spanking.
This is an other one of those posts you just wanna keep handy to reflect upon, a gem.
For one the exaggerated sense of time.
Where else have we experienced such distortions within the continuum?
My gripe with how economics are run go way back to when I was practicing illustration. I did a series of illustrations of birds you might find at a bird feeder. I performed the illustrations as a free lancer so the copyright for the illustrations remained in my possession, I wasn’t performing as someone’s employeee. The rights of reproduction were never contracted for nor transferred in any way. They used the illustrations for 7 years, printing hundreds of thousands of reproductions. I got taken. But I do get the satisfaction of running across one of my illustrations on the back of a bird feeder box on a store shelf to this day.
So yeah, I will admit to some resentment regarding how the system functions.
I did some consulting for Banta Digital. They had two systems that didn’t interface and they were spending thousands of dollars a day in labor to work around the problem. I had previously read a white paper on postscript printer description files and as postscript was a text based language I could make some sense of it. The PPD files were text based, and all I had to do was rename the file with a txt extension edit them in a word processor, define an output size that was equal to the other system, save the file with a PPD extension and the problem of the systems interfacing was moot. Took me four hours and literally saved the company millions. They got the millions and I get to tell the story.
I realize now that isn’t a problem with capitalism that it is a problem with how it is practiced and what it encourages. One a theory the other an implementation and endorsement. Intellectual property, not a claim on land or one of earths resources or a means of production, rather it was the result.
So yeah, you live to be sixty, and participate in the system, you’re going to have similar experiences of getting fucked. That will teach you money isn’t everything.
I’ve worked for the man and worked for myself and got fucked both ways. I ain’t lying, It is was I believe. Reality/Truth who is to know? Me or we? Someone else did write that white paper. They likely earned it more then I.
A few small changes in the UCP and silence…
how peaceful…
A few small changes in the UCP and…
how peaceful…
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My gripe with how economics are run go way back to when I was practicing illustration. I did a series of illustrations of birds you might find at a bird feeder. I performed the illustrations as a free lancer so the copyright for the illustrations remained in my possession, I wasn’t performing as someone’s employeee. The rights of reproduction were never contracted for nor transferred in any way. They used the illustrations for 7 years, printing hundreds of thousands of reproductions. I got taken. But I do get the satisfaction of running across one of my illustrations on the back of a bird feeder box on a store shelf to this day.
So yeah, I will admit to some resentment regarding how the system functions.
I did some consulting for Banta Digital. They had two systems that didn’t interface and they were spending thousands of dollars a day in labor to work around the problem. I had previously read a white paper on postscript printer description files and as postscript was a text based language I could make some sense of it. The PPD files were text based, and all I had to do was rename the file with a txt extension edit them in a word processor, define an output size that was equal to the other system, save the file with a PPD extension and the problem of the systems interfacing was moot. Took me four hours and literally saved the company millions. They got the millions and I get to tell the story.
I realize now that isn’t a problem with capitalism that it is a problem with how it is practiced and what it encourages. One a theory the other an implementation and endorsement. Intellectual property, not a claim on land or one of earths resources or a means of production, rather it was the result.
So yeah, you live to be sixty, and participate in the system, you’re going to have similar experiences of getting fucked. That will teach you money isn’t everything.
I’ve worked for the man and worked for myself and got fucked both ways. I ain’t lying, It is was I believe. Reality/Truth who is to know? Me or we? Someone else did write that white paper. They likel
Removed for on rereading I thought " what garbage " (on my part)
Sorry, now see, how the muse can play with your head.
I even managed to cut some of Your last words. Hope they can be recovered.
No worries… any time you might get back around to them is fine with me.
You did not affect the text you attempted to quote, just what you succeeded at. No words have been harmed in the process.
When I call someone immature, that’s my opinion given what is said in the thread itself, I’m not making shit up.
Tanks.One less thing to worry about.
In light of recent events, just one more thing to think about.
Or don’t.
Man it seems the only place.
Thinking how Dr. Xie characterized her feelings. aw-woe-man-wow.
I just can’t see a higher intelligence setting us all up for this. It has got to be random change that is at the root of this. Like PI can never be solved. It’s like a cosmic metaphor for fucks sake, you will never understand, you are condemned to its good enough for now, get use to it, 360 isn’t even a fraction of it.
what about this isn’t fucked up?
The last book I read was Companion Gardening. Were you aware that beans love corn and squash? Go figure.
This board is fucked up. Oppressive. It’s like this mono culture represses the other.
Corn, beans and squash. That is a natural metaphor.
If you can dig it, you’ve likely gotten dirt under your nails. A hand that can’t grow a thing is a waste of a limb on a tree. A dead branch.
I’ll be winding down here. So don’t be offended if I don’t respond.
My thinking is not getting honed here, I’m not being exposed to new and innovative thought. It’s a wall of the same old same old, odd extremes.
Sadly, what I have learned here is how to be a prick, I’ve gotten good at it so thank you to all the enablers of that;I have had some ‘good?’ teachers.
Lacking moderation. There is little similarity in behavior to the registration agreement. Not in principal not in practice.
No, I don’t trust anyone here to self moderate, haven’t seen any evidence of it.
Who ever wishes to take credit, may. I pay homage to the general population here, in this regard.
If I could place a warning beacon in cyber space regarding this site, to those approaching, I would.
Beware the sock puppet. What new member may be me, come to add a little spice to your life. All premise of civility aside. Imagine for a moment, you will deal with every new member with that question. I will now post under the name of any member? Let’s play a game.
Hours of amusement having stated you’ve placed a treasure in the corner of a railroad round house.